Loris Baz was forced to miss the Nurburgring round after crashing in warm-up practice. The 20-year old Kawasaki rider was sent to the hospital to undergo medical exams on a suspected vertebra injury.
Initially Baz tweeted that he had two cracked vertebra, but that was later ruled, but doctors in Spain did find an old T4 fracture that he didn’t know about.
Baz is currently recovering from his crash and hopes he will get the okay to race in the first ever World Superbike round that will be held in Istanbul on September 15th, which replaced the Brno round.
“First of all I want to say thank you to all my family, friends and fans for the messages of support. I appreciate them a lot. I feel better now only a few days after the crash but I am still in some pain. We should have more news about my recovery at the beginning of next week when I see more specialists, so we will see what they say. But in general it is better than they thought right after the accident, which is really good.
My father drove me home on Monday, then we went to Spain to see some specialists and now I am back home in France again. I tried to keep everybody up to date on Facebook and Twitter, but there were a lot of changes and developments on the medical side so it was not that easy to know what to tell people all the time.
Most importantly things are better than we thought. Right now we are looking at a physiotherapy regime to be put in place. If everything works out as it should I will go to Turkey and try to race because my back feels much better than it did on Sunday. I want to say thanks to all the medial teams in Germany, Barcelona and now France. Also a big thanks to my team - they have been really close to me and that is very important right now.”
via TWOWHEELSBLOG
